The New Simonides
Contexts of Praise and Desire
1st Edition
Published on 14. June 2001
325 pages
978-0-19-535022-7 (ISBN)
Description
Over the course of his life (550-460 BC), the Greek poet Simonides produced poetic work of every kind then extant. Unfortunately, Simonides' corpus has survived only in fragments, though classical scholars have been studying his work for generations. The 1992 discovery of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri revolutionized the study of Simonides, casting particular light on the epic of Plataea. This edited volume gathers the best of the recent research on Simonides' newly expanded oeuvre into a single collection that will be an important reference for scholars of Greek poetry.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I
- Introduction
- Photographs of POxy 2327 and 3965
- Fragments 1-22 W[sup(2)]: Text, Apparatus Criticus, and Translation
- Part II
- 1. The New Simonides: Toward a Commentary
- 2. "These Fragments We Have Shored against Our Ruin
- 3. The Genre of Plataea: Generic Unity in the New Simonides
- 4. The Proem of Simonides' Plataea Elegy and the Circumstances of Its Performance
- 5. A Bard of the Iron Age and His Auxiliary Muse
- 6. Heroic Historiography: Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea
- 7. Epic and Epiphanies: Herodotus and the "New Simonides
- 8. Paths to Heroization at Plataea
- 9. Lords of Hellas, Old Men of the Sea: The Occasion of Simonides' Elegy on Plataea
- 10. The New Simonides and Homer's Hemitheoi
- 11. Utopian and Erotic Fusion in a New Elegy by Simonides
- 12. To Sing or to Mourn? A Reappraisal of Simonides 22 W[Sup(2)]
- 13. "New Simonides" or Old Semonides? Second Thoughts on POxy 3965 fr.26
- 14. Heroes, Descendants of Hemitheoi: The Proemium of Theocritus 17 and Simonides 11 W[Sup(2)]
- 15. The Poet Unleaved: Simonides and Callimachus
- 16. Simonides and Horace on the Death of Achilles
- 17. Simonides and Horace
- 18. "As Is the Generation of Leaves" in Homer, Simonides, Horace, and Stobaeus
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
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